One of my frustrations is updating submodule deps. The above link seems interesting, but most projects I work on are small enough that hovering over the dep in

One of my frustrations is updating submodule deps. The above link seems interesting, but most projects I work on are small enough that hovering over the dep in pckg.json file in vscode lets me know what is the latest. At the top level, I don't have much trouble managing updatea, however what about deps of deps and so on? It is hard to update these, and sometimes it breaks/is manual. Then it is overwritten when a new npm install ia run.